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Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: psyjax on 10 September 2003, 00:30: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32731.html (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32731.html)

man, we should organize a protest and show up at the court hearing. This shit is low, see if I ever buy a cd again.
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: xyle_one on 10 September 2003, 00:56: jesus christ, the girl is 12! leave her alone, and take your lawsuits someplace else. on top of this, they are also suing a 70 year old man. his grandchildren probably downloadd some songs into a shared folder, and now grandpa is going to pay. It is getting out of hand. I am all for a boycott & protest. I would like to see the riaa crumble and fall. no more big labels would be nice. more "artists" and less pretty faces would be better.
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: Faust on 10 September 2003, 01:06: I'll do a quick look for GPL / Open Music License artists. So far all I know of is Magic Mushrooms (death metal, they have an (shudder) mp3 on the knoppix iso...) and Twisted Helices. (Their lead is the guy who wrote the Open Music License.
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: xyle_one on 10 September 2003, 01:10: There are quite a few "mainstream" bands out there that do not care about people downloading their music. In fact, they put it on their sites. Most artists make their money off of touring anyways.
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: flap on 10 September 2003, 01:32: To be fair it's no worse than them attacking anyone else. Unjustly suing kids is no worse than unjustly suing adults.
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: xyle_one on 10 September 2003, 01:40: quote:
Originally posted by flap:
To be fair it's no worse than them attacking anyone else. Unjustly suing kids is no worse than unjustly suing adults.

yeah. they shouldn't be suing anyone. but to fuck with a 12 year old girl who thought what she was doing was okay? sorry, but that is going too far.
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: hm_murdock on 10 September 2003, 02:06: when do we start the fund for a hitman to take out Sherman?
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: TheKnifeThrower on 10 September 2003, 02:28: quote:
Originally posted by Jimmy James is COOL:
when do we start the fund for a hitman to take out Sherman?

I'm sure there are some who would do it for free.
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: Stilly on 10 September 2003, 04:14: finally the good ole RIAA is going after the real criminals, lock her up and throw away the key! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: Laukev7 on 10 September 2003, 04:29: For their defence, I doubt they really knew that they would be suing a 12 year old girl. It's not that they actually intend to sue children; they probably only got the address from their ISP and filed a lawsuit, without really knowing whom they were addressing to. Face it, I don't like the RIAA very much, but even the most unethical corporation would know better than suing a child and risking a public relation disaster.
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: cahult on 10 September 2003, 04:32: 12, are they pedophiles?

When they are targetting 12yo girls they have gone too far.
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: Xeen on 10 September 2003, 06:45: They settled for $2000.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1212&e=1&u=/ap/20030910/ap_en_bu/downloading_music&sid=95573501 (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1212&e=1&u=/ap/20030910/ap_en_bu/downloading_music&sid=95573501)
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: hm_murdock on 10 September 2003, 10:55: well well, welcome to America, where the RIAA has police power and we've got the worst president since the depression.

WOW I LIKE THIS PLACE MORE EVERY DAY
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: suselinux on 10 September 2003, 12:17: quote:
Originally posted by Jimmy James is COOL:
well well, welcome to America, where the RIAA has police power and we've got the worst president since the depression.

WOW I LIKE THIS PLACE MORE EVERY DAY

It's not that bad, it'll all blow over soon

SCO will go bankrupt

The RIAA will raise the tariffs on CDR's and go away to hide in hole

Bush will be voted out for Colon Powell :D , That would be COOL!

Linux will grow and take over the world, with OSX by its side......BSD can come too

and all will be good, just goto sleep for the next three years.....
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 10 September 2003, 13:33: quote:
just goto sleep for the next three years.....

Does being stoned constantly count?
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: hm_murdock on 10 September 2003, 15:15: if I go to sleep I'll miss the revolution though! I wanna be there for the final battles of the platform wars!
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: Doctor V on 10 September 2003, 17:58: I think there needs to be an even stronger movement to boycott the RIAA. I'd like to see it be a big enough movement to really cut into their sales hard and reduce their profits to ziltch. Make it so they can no longer afford their Nazi-Lawyers and sue the pants off of innocent people.

V
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: Faust on 11 September 2003, 00:22: quote:
To be fair it's no worse than them attacking anyone else. Unjustly suing kids is no worse than unjustly suing adults.

He has a point, to us a 12 year old has "cute factor" but they have ruined the lives of lots of people before this. To be honest I'm sick of rich fucks like RIAA and the like trying to take away my freedoms. Why not just not buy into their tainted crap? There have got to be alternatives out there who want their fans to have their rights.

Still looking of course... haven't managed to find a big repository of Free music yet but I'm sure I'll find one. And I'm pretty sure mp3.com doesn't count.

edit1:
openmusic.linuxtag.org describes the actual license. There are three levels, green, yellow and red in order of most free to least free.

edit2:
woo hoo, pay dirt:

http://www.openmusicregistry.org/ (http://www.openmusicregistry.org/)

still looking for more as well as information on which of the groups I listen to are for / against my freedoms...

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Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: Faust on 11 September 2003, 00:35: Does anyone recognize any of these bands? No? Oh well, time to find enough money to put a serious dent in my bandwidth and find who I like...

1999 Manella Konstruktiivne maailm
404 Not Found Lars Christensen
Adam Kress Lee McKenna
algorhythm algorhythm Lemont GANT
Amanda Elfers litmus0001
Amiel Martin Maehler Aufgriech
Andres Laiapea Masiaka
Andrew Vavrek Matthew Brabbin
Ante Frankic Matthew McCuaig
Arthur Reeder Mechanical Trash Frequency
Bachmaninov metricks un
BlacFinga Recording Studios milo fungus
Black Eyed Smiley ML
Blue Monki Moah Sparks
Bluedangle Lewdscrew and the Chainsaw Cowboys Myk Gray
Boys Suck neckercube
Brian Redfern neurodisney
Bryon Gill Trio nik racine
Buzz Driver NSA
CANCRENA Ojida
Cathedral Of Sound Overture 28
Chaussette Verte paul kalashnikov
Cherry Abot Paul Le Hat
children of the drone Petites Poules
Chris Playtronic
Christian Schreiber ratl3
Christopher K Koenigsberg re:combo
Codewalker rich stephens
Coldfinger Saschman
Coldwave saso krsteski
Cowbitch Scott Wedel
DaMonk SHIRTLIFTER
darryl jones Snowbird
Deifecation Stefan Heimers
Digital Fire Stoneflower
Dimitriy Dyachenko Stuart Whitmore
Dominic Cerquetti T.K.M
Dr. KRS Murthy Tangential Cold
Dreamt Of By Armadillos (DOBA) TEMPERA BLU
Duke's 3.th Function II The Door Into Summer
Echomaniac The DuBay Band
Electrojunkie The Maya Conglomerate
Errorsound The New Digital Sound
Esquadr
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: Faust on 11 September 2003, 00:38: Also someone might like to tell Calum...
Does anyone remember the link to his music collection? I heard he took a lot of it down a while back. :-(
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: Faust on 11 September 2003, 00:44: http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/xart80.shtml (http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/xart80.shtml)

Ah crap, looks like I'm not a Nine Inch Nails / Marilyn Manson fan anymore. Fuck you Trent Reznor you hypocritical scum bag! Pretty accurate now considering he acts like all the other stars he supposedly hates. And I just bought the new MM album too. :(

Woo, you rebel Trent, go sue those fans. :rolleyes:

edit:
Also amusingly he was inspired by Skinny Puppy (good band btw) - who made a lot of songs which cant be released because they infringe on a few horror movies intellectual "property."

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Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: Faust on 11 September 2003, 00:49: http://www.boycott-riaa.com/ (http://www.boycott-riaa.com/)
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: jasonlane on 11 September 2003, 03:03: The pigolists steal candy of a 12 year old so they can maintain their tans.
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: emh on 11 September 2003, 03:20: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/10/tech/main572536.shtml (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/10/tech/main572536.shtml)
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: Laukev7 on 11 September 2003, 03:38: http://cnet.com.com/2100-1027_3-5073972.html (http://cnet.com.com/2100-1027_3-5073972.html)
Title: fuck the RIAA!!
Post by: Stilly on 11 September 2003, 03:38: what about when she wants to get into some school and they see this lawsuit from a huge company against her, they've fucked her before she could do much of anything.